Getting rid of a weird character Fishy <<*(((><[ at ]drift.net> 12/30/2008 5:25:41 AM I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into English. What I received has a chracter that looks like a hyphen with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete all these characters. I believe they represent an accent mark, which is not needed in Japanese Romanji. Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to represent some kind of a non-printing chracter. Like the pilcrow, I can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I cannot do a find/replace. There must be a way! I'm using Word XP.

Re: Getting rid of a weird character "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 12/30/2008 6:08:54 AM Locate the character in the character map and verify its Unicode number. This will be a four digit number (or numbers and letters) after u+ in the status bar of the character map dialog. Open the Windows Calculator and change the view to Scientific. Check the Hex radio button Enter the four digit number. Check the Dec radio button and record the resulting four digit number. In the Word replace tool (CTRL+H) enter ^u#### where #### is that four digit number Replace with nothing. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Fishy wrote: [Quoted Text] > I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into > English. What I received has a character that looks like a hyphen > with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing > character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I > cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete > all these characters. I believe they represent an accent mark, which > is not needed in Japanese Romanji. > > Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to > represent some kind of a non-printing character. Like the pilcrow, I > can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I cannot do a find/replace. > There must be a way! > > I'm using Word XP.

Re: Getting rid of a weird character Fishy <<*(((><[ at ]drift.net> 12/30/2008 6:51:15 AM That worked perfectly! By the way, the SYMBOL dialog allows a user to choose either the Unicode hex number or the ASCII decimal number. I noticed that the ASCII number--172, was the same as the reuslt I got using the calculator. I did not enter a leading zero. It found and replaced everything. I *never* would have figured that one out on my own; I don't understand how it works; and I'm *really* happy. Thank you! <*(((>< Fishy Lives! On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:08:54 +0200, "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Locate the character in the character map and verify its Unicode number. >This will be a four digit number (or numbers and letters) after u+ in the >status bar of the character map dialog. > >Open the Windows Calculator and change the view to Scientific. > >Check the Hex radio button > >Enter the four digit number. > >Check the Dec radio button and record the resulting four digit number. > >In the Word replace tool (CTRL+H) enter ^u#### where #### is that four digit >number > >Replace with nothing. > >-- ><>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> >Graham Mayor - Word MVP > >My web site www.gmayor.com >Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ><>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > > >Fishy wrote: >> I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into >> English. What I received has a character that looks like a hyphen >> with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing >> character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I >> cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete >> all these characters. I believe they represent an accent mark, which >> is not needed in Japanese Romanji. >> >> Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to >> represent some kind of a non-printing character. Like the pilcrow, I >> can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I cannot do a find/replace. >> There must be a way! >> >> I'm using Word XP. >

Re: Getting rid of a weird character "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 12/30/2008 7:36:12 AM Had the character been one from the extended character set it wouldn't have had a decimal number, and as I did not know the character, the suggested approach covers all bases. Glad it worked for you. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Fishy wrote: [Quoted Text] > That worked perfectly! By the way, the SYMBOL dialog allows a user > to choose either the Unicode hex number or the ASCII decimal number. > I noticed that the ASCII number--172, was the same as the reuslt I > got using the calculator. I did not enter a leading zero. > > It found and replaced everything. > > I *never* would have figured that one out on my own; I don't > understand how it works; and I'm *really* happy. Thank you! > > <*(((>< > Fishy Lives! > > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:08:54 +0200, "Graham Mayor" > <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote: > >> Locate the character in the character map and verify its Unicode >> number. This will be a four digit number (or numbers and letters) >> after u+ in the status bar of the character map dialog. >> >> Open the Windows Calculator and change the view to Scientific. >> >> Check the Hex radio button >> >> Enter the four digit number. >> >> Check the Dec radio button and record the resulting four digit >> number. >> >> In the Word replace tool (CTRL+H) enter ^u#### where #### is that >> four digit number >> >> Replace with nothing. >> >> -- >> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> >> Graham Mayor - Word MVP >> >> My web site www.gmayor.com >> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org >> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> >> >> >> Fishy wrote: >>> I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into >>> English. What I received has a character that looks like a hyphen >>> with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing >>> character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I >>> cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to >>> delete all these characters. I believe they represent an accent >>> mark, which is not needed in Japanese Romanji. >>> >>> Perhaps the hyphen with the downward stroke at the end is used to >>> represent some kind of a non-printing character. Like the pilcrow, >>> I can keyboard it in. Like the pilcrow, I cannot do a find/replace. >>> There must be a way! >>> >>> I'm using Word XP.